Not the most artistic photo, but you get the idea.Īt the most basic, this helps keep your subjects centered, but for the real artsy stuff, you should place the focus of your shot along one of the points where the lines intersect. When you open your Camera app again, you’ll now see a faint grid with nine squares. To turn on the grid, go Settings > Camera and then toggle Grid to green. Good photography takes real skill, but you can instantly make your photos much better by turning on the grid on your iPhone’s camera and heeding some simple arranging tips. Turn on the grid for better-framed photos The Calculator app is better for more complex reckonings, but this works fine if you want to know a simple sum or calculate a tip. Instead of entering standard text in the search bar, change the digital keyboard over to numbers and then you can make simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division calculations with the +, -, *, and / keys respectively. It’s relatively awkward, but it’s quick and it works. You can also use the standard iOS Search bar, which you can easily find by swiping down on the home screen.
Use the iOS Search bar as a simple calculatorĪpple’s built-in calculator app works great, but it’s not your only option if you need to make a quick calculation. (Don’t tap it.) A menu will pop up showing options for the standard keyboard and either a left- or right-handed one-handed keyboard. Whenever you can see the iOS digital keyboard, hold down the smiley-face button for emojis in the lower left. You can easily switch it to the left side, too. Anyone wanting to unlock the phone will still need the passcode. If you’re worried about a situation like the one described above, for instance, you can set Face ID so it works for things like Apple Pay and Safari passwords but doesn’t actually unlock the iPhone itself. You may think Face ID completely replaces the passcode when it’s active, but Apple actually grants a huge degree of control over what Face ID unlocks. (This is also how you access the Emergency SOS and your Medical ID.) For detailed information, be sure to check out our how-to.
Jason Cross/IDGĪnyone who wants to get into your phone after this will be forced to enter the passcode. Even if you’re not looking at your phone, a sharp vibration will let you know it worked. To do this, hold down at the same time the side button (on the right) and either the up or down volume buttons on the left for about two seconds. If you know you’re about to be in a situation where this might be an issue, you can disable Face ID in about three seconds. I’m a big admirer of Face ID, but unfortunately it makes it easy for someone to unlock your iPhone against your will by merely holding it up to your face. It seemed worth the struggle to keep the dual status because the image quality was far superior.Quickly disable Face ID in case of an emergency On any group trip, everyone would agree to let me take the pictures because my camera was just better. Shortly after that film shoot, I ditched my husband for good, but I went on to have seven LG phones, as their cameras and video quality kept improving. My cohost asked me, “Why are you living in two universes?” While I thought he was referring to the fact that I had recently left my husband on another continent, he actually meant: Why did I have a Nokia phone and a MacBook Air? Nothing worked consistently, especially with large video files.
I used Commander One, Android Transfer, anything I could find.
I had to use a software bridge to transfer between the phone and the computer, and every time there was an upgrade on either side, the transition became uncertain. I thought, “Can’t everyone just get along?” But no, it doesn’t work that way. My devices-an Android phone and an Apple laptop-were in a fight, just like my marriage.
The problem was I could not figure out how to get it off the phone.
Seven years ago, working on a video web series shot in Puerto Rico, the director told me they liked the footage I'd shot on my smartphone.